Daily Archives: October 31, 2021

2021-10-31: News Headlines

Anwar Ibrahim (2021-10-31). US should cease persecution of Assange. asiatimes.com I am deeply concerned over the precedents the fallout from the situation involving the detention and potential extradition of Australian editor and publisher Julian Assange will set. While the legal grounds for the charges against Assange bring up many important questions that should not be overlooked, we risk a more flagrant assault on the principles …

_____ (2021-10-30). US Lawyers Argue Assange Healthy Enough To Be Sent To His Death. popularresistance.org Some background information first: Assange's extradition battle with the United States continued at the appeal hearing on October 27-28 at the High Court in London. The first day was largely the prosecution's, with half an hour at the end for the defense. The second day was given to the defense to expand on its responses to the prosecution's arguments. Equally, the US' prosecutors were also given a brief moment at the end to counter. | The High Court judges overseeing the hearing were Lord Justice Holroyde and Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett. Holroyde ruled in the United States' favor on August 11th, allowing the…

Tariq Ali (2021-10-30). Assange Must Not Be Extradited for Exposing War Crimes in Afghanistan. zcomm.org Ali calls the case "a political trial" and a "punitive attempt by the British government … to try and punish Julian on behalf of the United States."

Chris Hedges (2021-10-30). The Most Vital Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time. orinocotribune.com By Chris Hedges — Oct 28, 2021 | If Assange is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting. | For the past two days, I have been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via video link from London. The United States is appealing a lower court ruling that denied the U.S. request to extradite Assange not, unfortunately, because in the eyes of the court he is innocent of a crime, but because, as Judge Vanessa Baraitser in January concluded, Assange's precarious psychological state would deteriorate g…

WSWS repost (2021-10-30). Assange's brother: "The CIA plan to kidnap Julian is continuing under a veil of legality" indybay.org The attempted US extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange resumed yesterday with the opening of a hearing into a US government appeal.

Caitlin Johnstone (2021-10-30). The Assange Persecution is Western Savagery at its Most Transparent. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Oct 28, 2021 | The first day of the US appeal of the Julian Assange extradition case saw grown adults arguing in a court of law that the US government could guarantee that it would not treat the WikiLeaks founder as cruelly as it treats its other prisoners. | I wish I was kidding. | In

Chris Hedges (2021-10-30). The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time. zcomm.org If Assange is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting…

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-30). Turkey to Russia: We sold drones to Ukraine for war in Donbass but aren't to blame for them being used for…war in Donbass. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Story below. Under the terms of NATO's nuclear sharing/burden sharing, 50 American B61 tactical nuclear bombs stored at the ƒ∞ncirlik Air Base in Turkey can be — in fact it's mandated they would be — delivered by Turkish F-16s to their destined targets. Were several of Russia's major cities reduced to smouldering, irradiated rubble in …

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-30). Ukrainian president justifies using Turkish combat drone against Donetsk defenders. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Zelensky on use of Bayraktar drones in Donbas: Armed Forces defend territory of Ukraine The Armed Forces of Ukraine use the weapons available to them only to protect….This was emphasized by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky during a conversation with media representatives in Odesa…. "Ukraine protects its territory and its sovereignty in accordance with the …

WSWS (2021-10-30). Guantanamo prisoner Majid Khan describes years of torture at CIA black sites. wsws.org Khan spent two hours before a jury of US military officers reading out a 36-page document that cataloged atrocities approved and applied in the name of "enhanced interrogation techniques."

Editor2 (2021-10-30). AMLO Wants Clarification of the Colosio Murder Case. orinocotribune.com In February, Mario Aburto, who was convicted of assassinating presidential candidate Colosio in 1994, requested that his case be reopened so that "the society knows the truth." | On Thursday, October 28, Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) offered State protection to Mario Aburto, who has claimed that the had police tortured him and forced him to plead guilty for the murder of the Institutionalist Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio in 1994. | "If it can be proved that he was tortured, he was threatened, and he has kept silent because of it… the Mexican sta…

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